Bryant Collins was driving on Highway 72 in Georgia when he saw the strangest thing on the side of the road: a 15-month old baby girl who was crawling alone, perilously close to the highway.
Collins pulled over his truck and rushed to save the baby from crawling into the roadway. He brought the baby girl back to his truck where he called the police and waited with her until they arrived. When she started crying, he had just the thing to calm her down.
“The baby started crying,” Collins said during an interview with 11-Alive, an NBC affiliate in Atlanta, “so I turned my phone on and let her listen to some gospel music, and she calmed right down.”
The baby had apparently crawled out of her home, through over 300 yards of woods, and then tumbled down a 15-foot embankment before making it to the roadway. The parents of the child said that they had left the house and that their other children, ages 13, 9, and 5, were supposed to be watching after her.
The girl’s father approached deputies during the investigation and, after what Madison County Sherriff’s officials described as a brief scuffle, he was arrested and charged with child cruelty, reckless conduct, and obstruction. The baby girl was mostly unharmed despite her long trek and fall down the embankment, but was released into the custody of her mother so that she could be brought to a hospital for medical treatment.
The mother has not been charged with a crime, but authorities have not ruled out that option.
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Source: dailymail, 11alive, hollywoodlife
A 13 yo. isn’t really what I would consider a responsible choice to leave in charge of an infant. They generally can’t stop playing video games or texting friends long enough to be bothered with something as trivial to them as looking after another person’s child or even a sibling!
Nicely done, Mr. Collins! You are a hero who undoubtedly saved a child’s life…I hope you get all the recognition you deserve for your quick thinking and heroic actions.
Totally Agree
Thank you sir for your quick actions this driver should never pay for his coffee again. Sorry but I missed why race was an issue? All I seen was a hero trk driver with a very lucky baby
That picture of those two looking at each other is priceless. I love it.
You probably love it because the childs expression calls to mind unspoken mistrust.
saw this on local tv news… shame they didn’t mention the fact that the driver was a young black guy and the baby girl WAS WHITE!
Why does that even matter? A person saved another person and that is the ONLY thing that matters.
What has the peoples race have to do with anything?
Hat’s off to Bryant Collins!
He did what any decent trucker should do in such a situation. Race, Creed or Gender never came into play in the times I’ve had to take action to save a life while out on the road.
These days it’s not an easy choice to take time to stop and help while running the tight schedules that trucking requires, but sometimes you have to put your HOS log aside and do the right thing.
Whoops! Slow data speed on my cell phone… photo just came up.
Where does his job as a trucker come from? In his video interview they say he is an auto mechanic and he is wearing his mechanics uniform.
These are not fit parent’s.
Sir Byrd, what the hell dose the race of the driver or the child have to do with this
The man saw a child in need and did what was right. Maybe I’m missing your point
Here.
… race always has something to do with it.
So good to see a story about this man Bryant Collins and truckers as GOOD GUYS…
Congratulations and Well Done!!
Totally agree with Alfred, race, color, creed, doesn’t matter. Someone does a good deed for another, one human caring for another. I’m missing the point to, or actually there isn’t one. Until we see each other just as people, the racial thing whether intended for good or bad will always just blur that we’re all just human, trying to get along on this earth.
“Sorry but I missed why race was an issue? All I seen was a hero truk driver with a very lucky baby”
Same here.
from what I read..the whole rasheal issue came about because aperantly the child’s father disliked the idea of a black boy holding his white daughter and got into a tussel with some one over it…I agree with you all race or color should not of had been the issue…this Driver should be congratulated for saving the baby’s life…and given the proper respect and dignity required no matter his color or race….or even that he is a Truck Driver for that matter..he saved a life
L T
… a black “BOY”?!?
If anything, it proves that race means nothing when it comes to kindness of the heart. Further, I commend anyone that stops to assist in a traumatic event. I witnessed a pickup truck rollover not too long ago. I was one of the first on the scene. After seeing that the driver was alive, I did what I could, which was to get the battery out of an upside down vehicle leaking gasoline. Let the fire department extricate him, with less chance of a fire or explosion.Oh, did I mention he was black? maybe I shouldn’t because of the race baiters out there.
Let the race thing go, it isn’t an issue. The thing that counts is that the baby is OK, and the parents should now know they can’t trust their kids with that kind of responsibility. Says loads about some people’s parenting these days, doesn’t it?
My 12 yr old stepdaughter had a merit badge in the Girl Scouts some years back. (Think 1990s) Police were called, and she had an answer for every question they had. She even knew how to contact my wife and me. There were no charges. Instead, we got compliments from the Officers for having such a responsible daughter.
When can we get back to this kind of attention to our family values?
… way to toot your own horn macgyver. You want somebody to do a story on you?
Hats off to mister Collins. I hope those parents get straightened out.
I have witnessed the results of allowing children to supervise the care of toddlers. The outcome was the worst case possible. Thank you Mr Collins for taking the time to do the right thing. None of us has the power to bring back a life that has been lost.
Great job driver as the race thing it doesn’t matter one bit plus if was on local tv news I am sure any viewers with at least one good eye could tell he is black and she was white
her look makes me laugh.
Congrats Sir!
Only hypocritical fools continue to claim the world in general and this country particularly, is/are colorblind. Anytime there is interaction between races there are particularly adverse dynamics, whether consciously or subconsciously, overtly or covertly, institutionally or personally. Black folk KNOW this because they experience it… White folk claim ignorance because they perpetrate it… even against their own “n##### lover” friends – (Summer of 1964 in Mississippi anybody?) — “That was then, this is now” some of you are thinking, but watch the replies to this post for my point to be proven.
You truck drivers act like you’ve never heard one of your own on the Citizens Band (CB) radio call another trucker a n#####… over the radio at that, without even knowing the persons race. U guys r a joke!
Come on folks, I would like to think we would all do the same. Thank you Bryant Collins!